Creating rollovers

Rollovers are interactive objects that change in appearance when you click or point to them. You can create rollovers using objects.

To create a rollover, you add the following rollover states:

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Normal — the default state of a button when no mouse activity is associated with the button
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Over — the state of a button when the pointer passes over it
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Down — the state of a clicked button

To edit the rollover states, you can view the rollover states and their properties.

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Rollovers showing Normal (left), Over (center), and Down (right) states

To publish a rollover to the Internet, you must save the rollover to a Web-compatible file format by publishing to HTML or to the Macromedia Flash (SWF) format.For information on publishing to the Web, see “Publishing to the Web.” For more information about creating and editing objects such as rollovers, see “Working with objects.”


To create a rollover object

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Select an object.
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Click Effects CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Rollover CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Create rollover.

To edit a rollover object

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Select an object.
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Click Effects CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Rollover CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Edit rollover.
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Specify the attributes of each state.
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Click Effects CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Rollover CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Finish editing rollover.

CorelDRAW note Creating rollovers

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You cannot close a drawing in which you are editing a rollover. You must finish editing first.

CorelDRAW tip Creating rollovers

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You can also edit a rollover object by clicking the Edit rollover button on the Internet toolbar.

To view the rollover states

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Click Window CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Toolbars CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Internet.
If the Internet command is not available, click Tools CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Options, click Command bars in the Workspace, Customization list of categories, and ensure the Internet check box is enabled.
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On the Internet toolbar, choose between the Normal, Over, and Down states from the Active rollover state list box.

CorelDRAW tip Creating rollovers

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You can preview a rollover object’s states in the drawing page by clicking View CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Enable rollover. To quit previewing the rollover so that you can edit it, click View CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Enable rollover. You cannot undo while previewing a rollover.

To view rollover properties

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Click Window CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Dockers CorelDRAW onestep Creating rollovers Object manager.
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Click the page and layer where the rollover resides.
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Click the rollover name, and expand the Normal, Over, and Down states.

Creating rollovers